Stemona

Taxobox
name = Stemona


image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Stemona japonica"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Lilliopsida
ordo = Pandanales
familia = Stemonaceae
genus = "Stemona"
genus_authority = Lour.
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text

"Stemona" is a genus of about 27 species of flowering plants in the family Stemonaceae, native to eastern and southeastern Asia and northern Australasia.

;Selected species
*"Stemona angusta" I.Telford
*"Stemona australiana" (Benth.) C.H.Wright
*"Stemona japonica" (Blume) Miquel (syn. "Roxburghia japonica", "S. ovata")
*"Stemona javanica" (Kunth) Engl.
*"Stemona kerrii" Craib
*"Stemona lucida" (R.Br.) Duyfjes (syn. "S. philippinensis")
*"Stemona mairei" (H.Léveillé) K.Krause
*"Stemona parviflora" C.H.Wright
*"Stemona prostrata" I.Telford
*"Stemona sessilifolia" (Miquel) Miquel (syn. "Roxburghia sessilifolia")
*"Stemona shandongensis" D.K.Zang
*"Stemona tuberosa" Lour.

Cultivation and uses

"Stemona tuberosa" (Chinese: 百部; pinyin: bǎi bù), is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine.

ee also

*Chinese herbology

References

* [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=131330 Flora of China: "Stemona"]
*APNI | name = Stemona Lour. | id = 11599
* [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?11515 Germplasm Resources Information Network: "Stemona"]